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Video emerges of garbage collector shooting 2 armed robbers, killing 1 in Chicago

February 2, 2025 5:22 AM CWBChicago

Surveillance video has emerged showing a garbage collector with a concealed carry license shooting two would-be robbers as he worked outside a Chicago elementary school on Friday. Police said one of the robbers was killed and the other was critically injured, but the armed sanitation worker was not harmed.

Cops linked video, Instagram posts, and phone records to identify 3 gunmen in murder of Innovations High School students

February 1, 2025 8:10 PM Tim Hecke

Prosecutors on Saturday revealed the painstakingly detailed efforts Chicago police detectives made as they tried to solve the double murder of two students outside Innovations High School one year ago. Investigators scoured social media posts, phone records, auto theft reports, and countless hours of surveillance video to identify the three gunmen.

2 migrants murdered man they met on Grindr, then used his phone for a $4,100 Amazon shopping spree: prosecutors

February 1, 2025 6:06 PM Tim Hecke

After two men left 63-year-old George Levin bound, gagged, and either dead or dying in his Norwood Park bedroom last weekend, they went on an Amazon shopping spree, buying merchandise worth more than $4,000 as they fled the scene, prosecutors said during a detention hearing Saturday.

Month: February 2025

Video emerges of garbage collector shooting 2 armed robbers, killing 1 in Chicago

Cops linked video, Instagram posts, and phone records to identify 3 gunmen in murder of Innovations High School students

2 migrants murdered man they met on Grindr, then used his phone for a $4,100 Amazon shopping spree: prosecutors

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